Linux Gaming: GTA San Andreas (with WINE) on Ubuntu

[diezel917]

how do you run it in windowed mode

[thenikroks]

ok i have the latest wine, i have ubuntu, and i already had gta sa, gta sa works fine on windows on the exact computer that i dual boot ubuntu with, can anyone help me get gta sa to work with ubuntu wine?

[Globi3000]

Hey, how do I change the Screen resolution in wine? On my Mac I always get the error ''Cant find 800x600x32 resolution''. ?

[autonomous2010]

I have a 1.8 GHZ CPU with 512 MB RAM and a 128 MB Nvidia Geforce Video Card.

Will this run on wine with my computer specs?

Will it run efficiently?

[Fisaren]

looks like it works pretty damned well!

[Guyc00l]

the game there has mutch mor quality than windows i mean, at least for me that the sky, is one of the best i have ever seen even in new games but the problem is that it becomes a little slow because of that, i think that it for defaut does that in all lights of the game, because even if i put low graphics it is almost as slow as very high

the problem is that i dont know how to change it and i can't play some games because of that

[isselman2000]

If you have an old card, which I suspect you do, you will not be able to change the graphics settings in San Andreas.

[Guyc00l]

No.

You can't change the sun quality. In my old card i put in very high defenition and then i put in low defenition you know the diference? 10 fps betwen this both so the problem comes from the quality that the sun is presented. The sun in my Gta san andreas looks almost as GTA IV

[YaYoTr0n]

i have the same problem with a Nvidia GeForce 9500GT ddr2 195.33(drivers)1 gb,Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 3,06GHz and 1GB RAM on Ubuntu 9.10 with Wine version 1.1.36.

[Tuxcz]

nice, i ran it but when i am near vehicle(s) the game start lags :( vice city works perfect

[lukesterh]

How do you do this?

[MegaPCWiz]

how do you get it running mine come messed up then when i click new game the game shuts down and i have a weird resolution

[1012522654]

Please can you help? I've installed this and when I try to play all the text is just blue squares on the main menu.

[DaweyYT]

What graphics card do you use?

[1012522654]

It's an Ati x800.

[Renny0090]

@1012522654 me too!!! have you solved the problem??

[6fuck6christ6]

@Renny0090 I just fixed the problem on my computer at least. I'm running Ubuntu 11.10. What video card do you have? If you have an intel then I know how to fix the problem--that is assuming that the problem is random squares/rectangles instead of buttons on the menus and the game crashes if you manage to guess which buttons are start game and start new game. It's just a very simple download from the software center, then you are up and running.

[genhalo2]

Awesome

The theme of your ubuntu its good.

i like it

[DaweyYT]

Yeah, to bad I don't remember what theme it was ^^

[rosk217]

put it on full screen or dont put thise vid on youtube

[DaweyYT]

Learn to write good comments or don't put your stinking comments on Youtube.

[LyonLMS]

do u can play sa on full monitor ???

[DaweyYT]

Yes.

[VillageIdiot8055]

ok did all the install when i start it from c drive it tells me it cant find 800x 600x 32 video mode how do i fix this?

[StratozphereENT]

what was the game that you installed???? like was it an exe file or something???? i have wine and stuff i just need the game in general, if you can give it to me please pm me on how you got it, or the download link or something.

thank you in advance

[DaweyYT]

The setup.exe from the original installation disc...

[djdanamal]

I'm having major issues getting mine to run... it instralled ok using "PlayOnLinux" and "Wine" but when I try play the game I get blank screen with big boxes where the buttons/options should be. Sound works fine, when I figured out witch box starts the game it crashes back to desktop :-(

any ideas?

[giacfalk]

same for me

[LearnUbuntu]

How do you make it run smooth?

[DaweyYT]

Followed the advices on Winehq and played around in regedit a bit. But the video isn't representational for the real performance.

[CompsciWiz]

What desktop manager are you using? I know it's not GNOME. Is it KDE? It looks nice and clean.

[DaweyYT]

It's Gnome, I use two panels that I made transparent with "Properties -> Background".

[Beselman]

how can you make it in window mode??

[DaweyYT]

Type 'winecfg' in terminal, and select "Graphics", "Virtual Desktop".

[garavrocks1234]

use fraps beter video

[DaweyYT]

Not available in Linux.

[hansfase]

LOL

[garavrocks1234]

ohh

[UbuntuOwns2228]

Can you tell me how to do that can i do it on ubuntu 8.10 are there any bugs?

[DaweyYT]

You can find a how-to @ appdb[dot]winehq[dot]org.

The game crashes sometimes, but that may be the result of the no-dvd crack I use! Overall it works fine!